@adam
Wow I've heard people say email is a problem or spam is this and that... we should talk.

A few ideas pasted below but the above the main point if you don't like reading long writing is above so giving options here.

A question to start if you don't mind...

I was wondering if you would entertain providing the more trusted Mastodon people an email account? Just a handful, would be for just personal chatting rather than hinging it critically...

It's for a while been a good idea since the increase in surveillance means to actually consider to nip things in the bud / solve this snooping from root (by offering a small email service to a few people already here) then at least they can have a 2nd email much less corporate (my admins use gmail together which I think is criminal but this is just for me now! Or for Qoto https://qoto.org/about/more)

I was thinking even a whitelist or manually entered list of whose allowed as incoming mail would nearly eliminate need for spam analysis and stick to our known peer only... so rejecting all but whitelist)

Either way... Non-GMail could really lock Google out of our comms... (even Mastodon normal alerts get copied by default sometimes for all these alerts and info!).

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Other notes:
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Email is the "root of evils" (is not far wrong) and leads to
- Classic 'espionage' (leaking your own data)
- Mapping movements by 3rd party + $haring with government(s0
- American interference (extraditing people / forcing their ambiguous laws... which users agree to doh!)
- etc etc

Less 3rd party records provides future-proofing (keeping out of hands of Google who is going to do who-knows-what next in the future).

Another person looking for answers
https://tilde.zone/@northernlights/108467461429681499